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IRC (Internet Relay Chat) may very well turn out to be the worlds most successful hack. In 1988, Jarkko Oikarinen wrote the original IRC program at the University of Oulu, Finland. As he says in his foreword, IRC started as one summer trainees programming exercise. A hack grew into a software development project that hundreds of people participated in, and then became a worldwide environment where tens of thousands of people now spend time with each other. I have found many of my friends through IRC and learnt a significant part of my present software engineering knowledge while using and working with IRC. That would not have been possible without learning from code examples and hacks from others.
IRC has continued to grow in popularity since its inception. Millions of people from all over the world now use IRC to chat with friends, discuss projects and collaborate on research. With a simple, clearly defined protocol, IRC has become one of the most accessible...
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The last 20 years have introduced us to new ways of communicatingwith other people. One of the most interactive new communicationtechniques is keyboard-based chatting, in which the text typed on thekeyboard of one person is shown straightaway on the screen of anotherperson, or a group of people, located far away, perhaps on the otherside of the world.
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an open source distributed chatenvironment used widely around the Internet. There are thousands ofchat programs, and there were at least hundreds of chat programsbefore IRC saw the first light in August 1988. What made IRCdifferent from these other chat programs? It was and still is thepossibility to network individual chat programs (IRC servers) to oneanother, thus forming a worldwide, distributed, and decentralizedchat network.
The ability to network, without maintaining a central location ofcontrol, has been the key for success for IRC, WWW, USENET News, andmany other systems. Similarly, the inability to distribute controlhas been the reason for failure for many occasions. Giving outcontrol and empowering others with the power to work, learn, anddevelop software allows for new innovations. Keeping control toyourself is often much easier to do, but it slows down progress bymaking it difficult, sometimes impossible, to innovate.
IRC started as one summer trainees programmingexercise. A hack grew into a software development project thathundreds of people participated in and became a worldwide environmentwhere tens of thousands of people now spend time with one another. Ihave found many of my present friends through IRC and learned asignificant part of my present software engineering knowledge whileusing and working with IRC. That would not have been possible withoutlearning from code examples and hacks from others.
I believe this book presents excellent tools and techniques for bothIRC newcomers and old-timers. The hacks will help the readers to digin the inner workings of IRC, learn from that, and enable them tofurther develop their own ideas into better software and new hacksfor themselves and others.
| Jarkko Oikarinen, Helsinki, April 5, 2004 |
| Head of R&D, Capricode Oy |
| CTO, Numeric Garden Oy |
Jarkko Oikarinen wrote the original IRC program at the University ofOulu, Finland, in 1988. He was granted a Dvorak Award in 1997 forpersonal achievement as a result of developing IRC.
Paul Mutton is a PhD student at the University of Kent in the UnitedKingdom, frantically trying to finish off his thesis at the same timeas writing this book. He previously graduated with first-class honorsin Computer Science, winning the IEE Institution Prize for being thebest overall student in his department. He uses Internet Relay Chat(IRC) to collaborate with researchers in other countries and to talkto people in his office when they have their headphones on. In hisremaining spare time, he uses his Sun Certified Java Programmerskills to develop all sorts of open source software on his personalweb site (http://www.jibble.org).Some of his research has culminated in the creation of the popularPieSpy application (http://www.jibble.org/piespy), which infersand visualizes social networks on IRC and even appeared on slashdotonce. He can normally be found jibbling around in #jibble and #irchacks onthe freenode IRC network with the nickname Jibbler , or Paul on smallernetworks.
The following people contributed their writing, code, and inspirationto IRC Hacks:
Alex North is married with children and works 9-5. In the hoursoutside of work he is immersed in the wonderful world of IRC. He canbe found in this world using the nickname DeadEd and can usually be found haunting the QuakeNet network. He is a Java jibbler and certified game addict and hasauthored MatchEd and PPF ,and he spends large amounts of time and fun playing with them onhttp://www.deaded.com.
Chris Smith is an IRC addict who spends most of his time writing botsin strange languages, playing games, or idling on IRC. He cannormally be found idling on QuakeNet with thenickname MD87 , attempting to work out why hislatest bot has decided to kick random people from his channel.
David Leadbeater is currently an undergraduate in softwareengineering at Sheffield Hallam University. He spends much too muchtime on IRC, mostly on Blitzed.org with thenickname dg . He is the author of CGI:IRC , and he likes Perl.
Hunter Pine was born in New York and started using a Mac at the ageof five, just a month after Wozniak and Jobs unleashed their newcomputing machine. Hunter now runs Integrate NewYork , a consulting company in Manhattan specializing insmall business computing needs, and spends his leisure time as aserver operator on irc.choopa.net , as well asberating people who are too lazy to use Google in #windows . Hunter lives with his lovely wife,Anna, and their two kittens, Andromeda and Cassiopeia. He alsodespises writing about himself in the third person.
Jennifer Golbeck is a Computer Science PhD candidate at theUniversity of Maryland, College Park, where she studies complexsystems. She likes to avoid any interactions that require leaving hertwo golden retrievers or changing out of pajamas, ergo can be foundconducting all of her business on irc.freenode.net using the nickname golbeck . Her other interests include marathonrunning, surfing, travel, and the Chicago Cubs.
Jim Hughes develops trading systems so that chaps who still wear redbraces can wager vast sums on the seemingly random fluctuations offinancial exotica. Jim is also a mobile technology fanatic and spendsfar too much time tinkering with and writing about mobile phones for Mobitopia and All AboutSymbian and not enough time developing for them. He canfrequently be found loitering as JimH in #mobitopia on freenode .
Maurits Dijkstra has been coding since his uncle bought him a QBasicbook at the age of 12. If hes not busy studying forhis exams, he works on BitlBee and tries towrite proper Python code.
Nicholas S. Copeland is a Des Moines Area Community College studenttransferring to Iowa State University where he will study ComputerEngineering. He purchased the Bersirc IRC clientand shocked the Net by announcing that all future versions will befree (as in freedom and as in free beer). You can find him as TsTech in #bersirc on irc.free2code.net .
Petr Pasky Baudis is a geekyCzech student who wasted his youth in front of a computer, addictedto IRC and the idea of free software. He is an IRCNet IRC operator, Linux andirssi fanatic, and maintains the ELinks text WWW browser. He also likes to readgood stuff while listening to some nice music or the BBC WorldService.
Steve Jolly is a particle physicist, mountaineer, photographer, anddilettante bot programmer. Once upon a time he held the
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